Comment by justin_vanw
9 years ago
Lets all waste time virtue-signalling about things we have no experience or expertise in, that are dominated by charismatic dummies we can barely communicate with, and that we'll have no measurable impact on!
Or we can keep doing what we can do well and has actually, fundamentally changed the world for the better and made us rich.
Well, if you negate what "politics" mean and conflate it with the current politicians star-system, your reasoning holds.
Although I can raise doubts whether it has made the world better, it certainly has made many people rich, at the expense of others. What you said is very political, ironically.
Very solid points, totally agree.
That being said, I'm not sure about how discussing politics on HN would go. While I think it's essential to assess the political implications of any project, especially in CS where things go global real fast, it will be difficult (although interesting) to have meaningful interactions between people of wildly different viewpoints and axioms when decrypting reality.